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Egyptian helicopters

Discovered on the walls of a temple in Abydos, Egypt, are hieroglyphics that closely resemble modern aircraft in profile: a helicopter, an airplane, and some kind of hovercraft or flying disc.…

The Ohio Killing was a massacre on 4th May 1970. Four students lay dead. Nine others, wounded, went to the hospital. Ironically, some of those shot were either observing or strolling nearby. Collateral damage

Newly released documents show that US state and federal officials authorised National Guardsmen to fire with live ammunition at unarmed students in Ohio in May, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others, writes Saul Landau.

In May 1970, 19 years before Chinese officials ordered troops to fire on its students and other citizens demonstrating in favor of democracy at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, U.S. state and federal officials had authorized National Guardsmen to fire with live ammunition at unarmed students — in Ohio.

The massacre occurred on May 4. Thirty-seven years later, Alan Canfora listened to the recording of the commanders words. Right here. Get set. Point. Fire. The tape then recorded 13 seconds of uninterrupted gunfire.

Canfora, 21-years-old, took a bullet in the wrist. Because the tape he acquired reveals a command structure in the shooting, he has demanded a new investigation.

There has been a 37-year cover-up at Kent State. The commanding officers have …

Baalbek, Lebanon

Approximately 86 kilometers northeast of the city of Beirut in eastern Lebanon stands the temple complex of Baalbek. Situated atop a high point in the fertile Bekaa valley, the ruins are one of the most extraordinary and enigmatic holy places of ancient times. Long before the Romans conquered the site and built their enormous temple of Jupiter, long even before the Phoenicians constructed a temple to the god Baal, there stood at Baalbek the largest stone block construction found in the entire world.

The origin of the name Baalbek is not precisely known and there is some difference of opinion among scholars. The Phoenician term Baal (as the Hebrew term Adon) simply means ‘lord’ or ‘god’ and was the title given to the Semitic sky-deity worshipped throughout the archaic Middle East. The word Baalbek may mean ‘God of the Bekaa valley’ (the local area) or ‘God of the Town’, depending on different interpretations of the word. Ancient legends assert that Baalbek was the birthplace of Baal. Some scholars have suggested that Baal (the Assyrian Hadad) was only one of a triad of Phoenician deities that were once venerated …